by John G. Self | Mar 6, 2018 | Healthcare, Recruiting, Rural / Community Hospitals
HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania – A financially viable community hospital is an important economic pillar. Without a hospital it is hard to recruit new physicians, young teachers with families, or to lure companies that will create jobs. When a community hospital...
by John G. Self | Sep 14, 2017 | Leadership
As times change, jobs morph into something new. Industries like health care, facing a unique set of financial, regulatory and political challenges, are seeing new jobs emerge while some existing staff positions are taking on more responsibility and are playing a more...
by John G. Self | Sep 12, 2017 | Uncategorized
People hate change. They dislike it so much that otherwise nice people will resort to some uncharacteristic behaviors — gossiping, lying and personal defamation against the person leading the change. This is a real threat to senior executives, especially those...
by John G. Self | Sep 7, 2017 | Leadership
In my more than 20 years of executive search and consulting on organizational turnarounds, I have seen an important, immutable truth play out over and over. The organizational culture that a new chief executive officer inherits is the one they must use to get started....
by John G. Self | Aug 8, 2017 | Career Management, Leadership
The quality of an organization’s leadership and their employee turnover rate are intrinsically linked. Bad leadership begets a high rate of employee churn. Turnover doesn’t just happen. It is the result of leadership mistakes, misguided strategy policy or neglect. The...
